Boy-Wives and Female Husbands : Studies in African Homosexualities.

By: Murray, Stephen OContributor(s): Roscoe, Will | Epprecht, MarcMaterial type: TextTextSeries: SUNY Press Open Access SeriesPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2021Copyright date: �2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (367 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781438484112Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Boy-Wives and Female HusbandsDDC classification: 306.7/66/096 Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- New Foreword -- The Genesis of Boy-Wives and Female Husbands -- Notes -- References -- Preface: "All Very Confusing" -- Notes to the Preface -- Africa and African Homosexualities: An Introduction -- "Just Because They Like Them" -- The African Continent -- Same-Sex Patterns -- Reading Colonial Texts on African Sexualities -- Notes to the Introduction -- Part I. Horn of Africa, Sudan, and East Africa -- Overview -- Horn of Africa -- Sudan -- Zande -- Zande Woman-Woman Relations -- Coastal East Africa -- "Grinders" -- The Interlake Region -- Nilotes (Eastern Sudanic Languages) -- Bantu Groups -- Lesbianism in a Kenyan Novel -- Notes -- "A Feeling within Me": Kamau, a 25-Year-Old Kikuyu -- Notes -- Occurrences of Contrary-Sex among the Negro Population of Zanzibar (1899) -- Notes -- Mashoga, Mabasha, and Magei: "Homosexuality" on the East African Coast -- The Swahili-Speaking Coast of East Africa -- "Transvestites" and "Homosexuals" in Swahili Society -- Rituals of Inversion -- Transvestite Performers -- "Male Homosexuals" -- The Omani Khanith (Xanith) -- "Homosexuality," Gender, and Identity in Old Town -- Swahili Terms for "Male Homosexuals" -- Mashoga Identity: Practicing Gender -- Transnational Popular Culture and New Identities -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part II. West Africa -- Overview -- Sudanic West Africa -- Religious Vocations in West Africa -- Hausa -- Yoruba -- Coastal West Africa -- Eunuchs, Amazons, and a Sometimes Lifelong "Adolescent Phase" in Dahomey -- Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia -- Gender-Defined Homosexuality in and around Senegal -- Notes -- A 1958 Visit to a Dakar Boy Brothel -- Note -- Male Lesbians and Other Queer Notions in Hausa -- Notes -- West African Homoeroticism: West African Men Who Have Sex with Men -- Note -- Part III. Central Africa.
Overview -- Equatorial Region and the Congo Basin -- The Kitesha Role among the Basongye -- Southern Congo and Angola -- Woman-Woman Patterns -- Notes -- Homosexuality among the Negroes of Cameroon and a Pangwe Tale (1921, 1911) -- The Woman-Hater -- The Story of the Man Who Didn't Love Women -- The Four Suitors: A Pangwe Tale -- Notes -- Ganga-Ya-Chibanda (1687) -- Note -- Same-Sex Life among a Few Negro Tribes of Angola (1923) -- Notes -- Part IV. Southern Africa -- Overview -- The Kalahari Desert -- Southeastern Africa -- "Wives of the Mines" in South Africa -- Woman-Woman Patterns -- Notes -- Homosexuality among the Natives of Southwest Africa (1925-1926) -- Notes -- "Good God Almighty, What's This!": Homosexual "Crime" in Early Colonial Zimbabwe -- Conclusion -- Notes -- "When a Woman Loves a Woman" in Lesotho: Love, Sex, and the (Western) Construction of Homophobia -- Background: Lesotho and Its History -- Problematizing the Author -- Women in Lesotho -- The Sexuality Debates -- Notes -- Sexual Politics in Contemporary Southern Africa -- South Africa -- President Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwe International Book Fairs -- Namibia -- Botswana -- Notes -- Part V. Conclusions -- Woman-Woman Marriage in Africa -- The Gender of the Female Husband -- Marriage without Sex? -- Notes -- Diversity and Identity: The Challenge of African Homosexualities -- Diversity of Same-Sex Patterns -- Identities and Roles -- Social Correlates -- Woman-Woman Relations -- The Future of African Homosexualities -- Notes -- Appendix 1: African Groups with Same-Sex Patterns -- Appendix 2: Organizations of Homosexuality and Other Social Structures in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Language -- Inheritance -- Subsistence Activities -- Sexual Division of Labor -- Lack of Male Sexual Access to Females -- Male Circumcision and Adolescent Male Isolation -- Class and Urbanization -- Summary.
Socioeconomic Structures of Societies with Female-Female Sexuality -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.
Summary: A significant contribution to anthropology, history, and gender studies that reveals the denials of homosexuality in traditional and contemporary African societies to be rooted in colonialist ideologies.
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Intro -- Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- New Foreword -- The Genesis of Boy-Wives and Female Husbands -- Notes -- References -- Preface: "All Very Confusing" -- Notes to the Preface -- Africa and African Homosexualities: An Introduction -- "Just Because They Like Them" -- The African Continent -- Same-Sex Patterns -- Reading Colonial Texts on African Sexualities -- Notes to the Introduction -- Part I. Horn of Africa, Sudan, and East Africa -- Overview -- Horn of Africa -- Sudan -- Zande -- Zande Woman-Woman Relations -- Coastal East Africa -- "Grinders" -- The Interlake Region -- Nilotes (Eastern Sudanic Languages) -- Bantu Groups -- Lesbianism in a Kenyan Novel -- Notes -- "A Feeling within Me": Kamau, a 25-Year-Old Kikuyu -- Notes -- Occurrences of Contrary-Sex among the Negro Population of Zanzibar (1899) -- Notes -- Mashoga, Mabasha, and Magei: "Homosexuality" on the East African Coast -- The Swahili-Speaking Coast of East Africa -- "Transvestites" and "Homosexuals" in Swahili Society -- Rituals of Inversion -- Transvestite Performers -- "Male Homosexuals" -- The Omani Khanith (Xanith) -- "Homosexuality," Gender, and Identity in Old Town -- Swahili Terms for "Male Homosexuals" -- Mashoga Identity: Practicing Gender -- Transnational Popular Culture and New Identities -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part II. West Africa -- Overview -- Sudanic West Africa -- Religious Vocations in West Africa -- Hausa -- Yoruba -- Coastal West Africa -- Eunuchs, Amazons, and a Sometimes Lifelong "Adolescent Phase" in Dahomey -- Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia -- Gender-Defined Homosexuality in and around Senegal -- Notes -- A 1958 Visit to a Dakar Boy Brothel -- Note -- Male Lesbians and Other Queer Notions in Hausa -- Notes -- West African Homoeroticism: West African Men Who Have Sex with Men -- Note -- Part III. Central Africa.

Overview -- Equatorial Region and the Congo Basin -- The Kitesha Role among the Basongye -- Southern Congo and Angola -- Woman-Woman Patterns -- Notes -- Homosexuality among the Negroes of Cameroon and a Pangwe Tale (1921, 1911) -- The Woman-Hater -- The Story of the Man Who Didn't Love Women -- The Four Suitors: A Pangwe Tale -- Notes -- Ganga-Ya-Chibanda (1687) -- Note -- Same-Sex Life among a Few Negro Tribes of Angola (1923) -- Notes -- Part IV. Southern Africa -- Overview -- The Kalahari Desert -- Southeastern Africa -- "Wives of the Mines" in South Africa -- Woman-Woman Patterns -- Notes -- Homosexuality among the Natives of Southwest Africa (1925-1926) -- Notes -- "Good God Almighty, What's This!": Homosexual "Crime" in Early Colonial Zimbabwe -- Conclusion -- Notes -- "When a Woman Loves a Woman" in Lesotho: Love, Sex, and the (Western) Construction of Homophobia -- Background: Lesotho and Its History -- Problematizing the Author -- Women in Lesotho -- The Sexuality Debates -- Notes -- Sexual Politics in Contemporary Southern Africa -- South Africa -- President Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwe International Book Fairs -- Namibia -- Botswana -- Notes -- Part V. Conclusions -- Woman-Woman Marriage in Africa -- The Gender of the Female Husband -- Marriage without Sex? -- Notes -- Diversity and Identity: The Challenge of African Homosexualities -- Diversity of Same-Sex Patterns -- Identities and Roles -- Social Correlates -- Woman-Woman Relations -- The Future of African Homosexualities -- Notes -- Appendix 1: African Groups with Same-Sex Patterns -- Appendix 2: Organizations of Homosexuality and Other Social Structures in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Language -- Inheritance -- Subsistence Activities -- Sexual Division of Labor -- Lack of Male Sexual Access to Females -- Male Circumcision and Adolescent Male Isolation -- Class and Urbanization -- Summary.

Socioeconomic Structures of Societies with Female-Female Sexuality -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.

A significant contribution to anthropology, history, and gender studies that reveals the denials of homosexuality in traditional and contemporary African societies to be rooted in colonialist ideologies.

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